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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

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For real this time, Google has released the Google Search Console generative AI performance reports and Search generative AI controls to everyone globally. This follows a slow rollout that began in the first week of June and expanded access to the features over the past few months.

Google Ads has been testing AI-generated snippets and summaries in the sponsored results within Google Search for some time. But now Google is labeling a new section named “What customers love” as “AI-generated from the store rating reviews.”

On Friday, Google pushed out a pretty big overhaul of the Performance Max documentation within the Google Ads support area. I’ve been waiting to compare the old and new documents, but the Wayback Machine has been down for about a week now.

In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to continue to see search results. Now, Google is testing a similar feature without requiring you to sign in, but instead, Google is asking you to click a “Continue” button after a few seconds, after Google verifies your request.

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